The Ol' Stars and Stripes!

In the wake of what I think is now just the second or third most recent open air shooting in South Carolina there is a growing movement to remove the Confederate flag wherever it still may fly particularly in government buildings.
 The logic being that the flag is a symbol of a particularly embarrassing time in this nation's past when we had what was known as chattel slavery as a principle economic driver. This, of course, was built on the racist ideology of blacks being inferior and put here to be used simply as tools.
Ok, fair enough. The Confederacy was an attempt to keep that deplorable tradition alive, but if the idea here is to destroy racist symbols that drive people to violence why exactly isn't anyone talking about doing away with the American flag as well?
America as a nation existed quite a while before the idea of the Confederacy was even conceived. In fact had there not been an America there would not have been a Confederacy. Of course, America was a nation built by slavery and extermination of the natives so right there you already meet the criteria for doing away with this symbol.
Some would argue:"Yeah but the U.S. got rid of slavery you silly goose LOL!"
Well, no the new industrial economic model simply works by way of a different kind of slavery wage slavery. Now here is the part where it will be argued this is not the same because you have a "choice" and conditions aren't as bad (apparently as long as people don't actually see flogging they're happy) blah blah.
AS far as choice goes you must work for a wage or you die and as far a the conditions go wage slavery is now a worldwide system and just like older models of slavery some slaves get better deals than others.
Ok so what about the racist element? Sure we're all wage slaves now but at least we are all a level playing field right? Simply not true thanks to more subtle but still not so subtle institutionalized racism there is a growing income gap between white and black families. Blacks tend to face far more severe punishments for minor infractions as well. For instance selling, loose cigarets might get you strangled to death on the street.
Some have said the Confederate flag moves extremists to violence. That might be true, but again what about the American flag? Historically America has inspired people to be very violent. The waving stars and stripes has been carried to battlefields all across the globe. The Confederate flag was a banner in one war the American flag clearly has more blood on its cloth. I mean fuck if you want to talk about something dangerous extremist rally around have you seen the fucking military??
In conclusion, if you find comfort in meaningless gestures and debates by all means get rid of the Confederate flag and see what changes. If you want to have a serious conversation about the pain and suffering these symbols cause well then you might want to consider throwing away the old stars and stripes as well.

Investment Opportunities

I've noticed women will disproportionately reciprocate even the most token gesture of generosity. To give an example. My girlfriend has a friend visiting her she sees maybe twice a year. We decided to drink a bit, and this friend said she wanted to drink light and would rather have beer than the tequila we were drinking.
I offered to go to the store for her, and she gave me money for a six pack. Well, I paid for the six pack myself and gave her back her money. Long story short my girlfriend was so happy about it she decided to buy me dinner and that meal will probably cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 dollars. Not a bad investment.

Casual Racism For a Better Tomorrow

I've noticed millennials, particularly ones that live in the city like to pretend racism just doesn't exist no matter how apparent it may be. For instance, they don't much care for gentrification on paper but that never stops them in practice. If you were to ask the college kids or what are known as young urban professional moving into Wicker Park or Logan Square if they're gentrifying the area they would probably stay no we are making it better! 
Of course making it better just happened to involve driving out all the low-income people of color. In no way though is that related to racism, classism, or any other ism these hip post-racial folk would never dream of being a part of! 
 Another odd thing about this is they are even sensitive to white on white racism i.e. they don't much care for terms like pollock, mick, dago, etc. They also get upset over sweeping generalizations about nationalities.  For the life of me.I can't understand why!
 So I've decided to be casually racist more often in my day to day life. I'll say things like; "Nah I don't wanna eat there with all those loud eyetalians." Or "Isn't that place where the damn Romanians hang out?" Furthermore, I will take every opportunity possible to insult more nationalities based on old stereotypes. I will call the British incestuous organ eating ghouls. I will point out how strange it is the Scandinavians like to have pagan orgies in the woods.
Overly sensitive white people will get offended by this, and I'm ok with that. If someone gets genuinely offended by this sort of thing, I don't feel much in the way of sympathy just irritation. I forgot what the point to all this was...fuck being PC perhaps?